Rebirth from the Ashes: Rebuilding the Red Soviet Area

Before everyone recovered from the shock

The old squad leader stood up and said: "Now I announce the military sub-district's appointment of the Meishan base."

"Our Meishan Guerrilla Battalion has officially been transformed into the Meishan Independent Detachment, a brigade-level organization."

"The Military District appointed Comrade Li Yan as the captain of the Meishan Independent Detachment, and I, Zhang Ping, as the political commissar of the Meishan Independent Detachment."

"Comrade Lu Zhiguo is the Chief of Staff, Comrade Su Shan is the Director of the Political Department, and Zhang Dong is the Deputy Chief of Staff."

"The above comrades are the Party Committee of the Meishan Independent Detachment"

"I am the Party Secretary, and Comrade Li Yan is the Deputy Party Secretary"

After the old squad leader finished speaking, there was a loud applause in the command room.

Li Yan continued, "In order to quickly build up combat effectiveness for the troops, let me explain the organization of the Meishan Independent Detachment."

"The Meishan Independent Detachment has four infantry regiments under its command"

"Appoint Zhao Wu as the commander of the first regiment and Zheng Qiao as the political commissar"

"Second Regiment Commander Gao Xuan, Political Commissar Zhou Ming"

"Zhang Dong concurrently serves as the commander of the Third Regiment, and Wei Peng is the political commissar."

"Comrades Su Shan, the commander of the Fourth Regiment, and Lu Zhiguo, the political commissar, serve concurrently."

"As for the rosters of battalion, company, platoon, and squad leaders, each regiment commander and political commissar will confirm them and report them to the detachment."

Li Yan paused and said, "The Meishan Independent Detachment is directly under the command of an artillery regiment, a Dragon Blood Special Operations Battalion, a special forces battalion, a logistics battalion, and a field hospital."

"Stonemason directly under the Artillery Regiment Commander"

"Leopard, Captain of the Dragon Blood Special Operations Team, and Taoist, Deputy Captain"

"Song Tao, Commander of the Special Operations Battalion"

"The logistics battalion and the field hospital are temporarily under the charge of the old squad leader."

"In addition, Comrade Zhang Jing from the Dragon Blood Special Operations Brigade will be dispatched to form the Meishan Base Field Hospital."

Li Yan took a sip of water and continued, "In order to strengthen the heavy firepower of each unit..."

"Each infantry regiment is directly under the command of an artillery company."

"Each battalion has a heavy machine gun company and a mortar platoon directly under its command."

"Each infantry squad has a light machine gun squad"

"The Meishan Independent Detachment is directly under the artillery regiment, which has four artillery battalions under its jurisdiction.

"The First Artillery Battalion is responsible for two 105MM howitzers and four 75MM mountain guns for the Heavy Artillery Battalion."

"The 2nd and 3rd Artillery Battalions are mortar battalions"

Each battalion is responsible for 8 82MM mortars and 6 20MM machine guns.

"The 4th Artillery Battalion is an air defense battalion, responsible for 4 20MM anti-aircraft guns and 4 37MM anti-tank guns."

At this point, there was a commotion in the conference room.

Especially the cadres who had just arrived at Meishan were all shocked and opened their mouths wide.

What kind of firepower is this? It's so luxurious.

With such a configuration, not to mention a brigade of the Red Army, even a corps does not have such powerful firepower.

At this time, these people looked at Li Yan with different eyes.

I am full of curiosity about Li Yan, and also have a little admiration for him.

This is not over yet

Li Yan continued, "The special forces battalion needs to undertake various tasks such as reconnaissance, guarding, engineering, logistics, etc."

"So the special forces battalion is equipped with 8 heavy machine guns and 30 MP18 submachine guns."

"Others are all equipped with Mauser pistols and pistols"

"In addition to carrying out special missions, the Dragon Blood Special Operations Brigade is now also responsible for serving as a teaching team."

"Quickly train new recruits and make them combat-ready"

"The Dragon Blood Battalion can select suitable personnel from the entire army to join the Dragon Blood Battalion. There is no limit on the number of personnel."

"What do you think of this adjustment?"

After Li Yan finished speaking, the meeting room fell silent.

Li Yan understands everyone's thoughts

Meishan's old team trusts themselves

These new cadres are still a little reluctant to let go

Li Yan did not force it, as this kind of thing needs time to settle.

Li Yan said: "The Meishan base seems strong now, but it also has many problems."

"The first is that there are more and more civilians in the Meishan base area."

"But Meishan has many mountains and little land, so survival is a big problem."

"Second, the 83rd Division has been severely damaged by us. The enemy will definitely not give up."

"We are surrounded by the 3rd Division of Longyan, the 80th Division of Zhangping, the 45th Division of Liancheng, and the remaining half brigade of the 83rd Division of Yongan."

"We have a lot of new recruits now, and they are all concentrated near the headquarters."

"If the enemy attacks us from four directions"

“We don’t have any room to maneuver.”

"So I decided to take advantage of the opportunity when the enemy was cleaning up the former 19th Route Army."

"Disperse the troops and expand the radiation range of the base"

"This will give us space to wage guerrilla and mobile warfare."

“Does anyone have any comments?”

Most of the people present here are veterans of the Red Army, who have experienced many encirclements and suppressions by the enemy.

They are very familiar with guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare.

They expressed their approval

Li Yan said: "Everyone come and see the sand table"

"There are four important towns in Meishan, namely Gutian Town, Shuangyang Town, Wan'an Town and Pengkou Town."

"These four towns serve as both a barrier for the Meishan base and an outlet for outward development."

"Gutian Town and Shuangyang Town were once massacred, and the enemy had no troops stationed there."

"Zhao Wu led a regiment to station in Gutian Town"

"Su Shan and the Fourth Regiment entered Shuangyang Town"

"Remember, before the new recruits are fully trained, the priority is development and consolidation."

"Once the new recruits have become combat-ready, immediately eliminate the enemy forces around you."

"As for Wan'an Town and Pengkou Town, the enemy is heavily guarding them."

"Song Tao is responsible for investigating the situation in the two towns."

"Gao Xuan's Second Regiment and Zhang Dong's Third Regiment are responsible for attacking and occupying"

"Stonemasons are responsible for artillery support"

“The task must be completed within a week.”

Zhao Wu, Zhang Dong, Gao Xuan, Su Shan, Stonemason, and Song Tao all stood up again and said in unison, "Yes!"

Li Yan finally said: "Comrades"

"The Meishan base is still very fragile, and everyone bears a heavy burden."

"Political construction, base defense, militia development, arsenal construction, corps construction, school management, external material trade, etc."

“These things require everyone’s concerted efforts to improve.”

The old squad leader said: "Captain, don't worry"

"We now have so many experienced political cadres in the Meishan base area."

“Meishan will definitely get better and better”